President Chen had offered the position of Presidential Office Secretary-General ( vacated by Su ) to the departing premier, but Hsieh declined and left office criticizing President Chen for his tough line on dealing with the PRC.

There has been a formal line of succession to the presidency since 1792 ( currently found in the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, ).

The United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is the head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a member of the President's Cabinet, and thirteenth in the Presidential line of succession.

The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fourteenth in the Presidential line of succession.

The Speaker is second in the presidential line of succession, immediately after the Vice President, under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947.

The Presidential Succession Act establishes the line of succession to the powers and duties of the office of President of the United States in the event that neither a President nor Vice President is able to " discharge the powers and duties of the office.

In Is the Presidential Succession Law Constitutional, Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram Amar refer to Article I, Section 6, Clause 2 ( a. k. a., Incompatibility Clause ) as evidence that members of the Congress cannot be in the Presidential line of succession.

This is a list of the current presidential line of succession, as specified by the United States Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 as subsequently amended to include newly created cabinet offices.

The Honduran constitution mandated that the head of Congress, Roberto Micheletti, who was next in the Presidential line of succession, becomes the provisional head of state since Vice President Elvin Ernesto Santos had resigned in December 2008 to run for President.

On March 9, 2006, President Bush signed as, which renewed the Patriot Act and amended the Presidential Succession Act to include the Secretary of Homeland Security in the line of succession after the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (§ 503 ).

While none of these officers would succeed to the presidency as would a Vice President, the provisions of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, now codified in Title 3, Chapter 1, section 19 of the United States Code, create a line of succession that allows the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and Cabinet officers, to serve as acting president in the case of removal, resignation, death or inability of both the President and Vice President, and also in the case of failure to qualify of both a President-elect and a Vice President-elect.

John Philip Sousa, who wrote the Presidential Polonaise, intended to keep visitors moving briskly through the White House receiving line.

In the year 2006, the Earned Income Tax Credit lifted more than four million people above the poverty line and was called “ the nation ’ s most effective antipoverty program for working families .” Long also initiated the provision that allows a taxpayer to allocate $ 1 of taxes for a Presidential election campaign fund checkoff ( the " dollar checkoff ").

The senate president often ranks high in a jurisdiction's succession for its top executive office: for example, the President of the Senate of Nigeria is second in line for succession to the presidency, after only the Vice President of the Republic, while in France, which has no vice president, the Senate President is first in line to succeed to the Presidential powers and duties.

Leno's guest that night, Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, was criticized for crossing the WGA picket line to appear on the show.

* Johnson removed Ron Paul's name from straw polls regarding the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination campaign, asserting that Ron Paul's supporters were fraudulently gaming the vote script to increase Paul's numbers: " The bottom line: if Ron Paul supporters weren ’ t spamming, he would still be in our polls.

He thus was still in the nominal running when the Presidential election ended up in the House of Representatives, due to the provision within the Twelfth Amendment giving a line on the House ballot to each of the top three candidates, but his stroke made him a non-factor there.

In the Presidential election of 1980, John Anderson's independent bid for the Presidency against Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter was frequently run on the party ballot line of the " National Union Party ".

On October 8, 2004, Cobb was arrested in an act of civil disobedience, breaking a police line while protesting the Commission on Presidential Debates for excluding third-party candidates from the nationally televised debates in St. Louis, Missouri.

Presidential elections are conducted in line with Article 12 of the Constitution and under the Presidential Elections Act 1993, as amended.

In 1850, as Speaker he would have been next in line to the Presidency for two days due to Vice Presidential vacancy and a president pro tempore not being appointed yet, except he did not meet the minimum eligibility for the presidency of being 35 years old.

" On October 8, 2004, Green Party candidate David Cobb was arrested in an act of civil disobedience, breaking a police line while protesting the Commission on Presidential Debates for excluding third-party candidates from the nationally televised debates in St. Louis, Missouri.

While the Vice President's only constitutionally prescribed functions aside from Presidential succession relate to his role as President of the Senate, the office is commonly viewed as a component of the executive branch of the federal government.

Section 2 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment provides for Vice Presidential succession:

Thus, the Postmaster General is no longer a member of the Cabinet and is no longer in Presidential succession.

Presidential succession has occurred three times under the 1947 Constitution:

The Twenty-fifth Amendment ( Amendment XXV ) to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities.

That clause was unclear regarding Presidential succession and inability ; it did not state who had the power to declare a President incapacitated.

Before the passage of the Presidential Succession Act, succession was setup to keep the Executive branch of the Presidency separate from the Legislative branch.

Key figures and factions within the ruling elite began to jockey ready for Presidential succession as Suharto entered his late 1960s.

* During his 1969 Presidential bid he was often compared by the U. S. press to Harry Truman, due to his folksy style and succession

She thus became the first African American woman to enter the Presidential line of succession, at number 13.

The following are in order of Presidential succession.

This was historic in its way, for it marked the first time an American Presidential aspirant had advertised his own virtues in his own string of newspapers spanning the land.

Presidential coercion had succeeded not only in poisoning the courtiers, `` toadies '' and sycophants of the `` bench '' against me, but it had been so far-reaching as to discourage any lawyer in the nation from representing me!!

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.

With the success of 1962 constitution, the East Pakistan had became a Presidential republic and abolished all parliamentary institutions in East Pakistan.

and Dunne had also given £ 15, 000 to the Labour Party during the 1990 Presidential election campaign.

Bush's contribution to the urban agenda had been volunteerism through his " Points of Light " theme, and Kemp received stronger support for his ideas from Presidential candidate Bill Clinton.

By 1994, Kemp had embarked on 241 fund-raising dinners to raise $ 35 million for a 1996 Presidential bid and to pay off his 1988 campaign debts.

When Dole declined an invitation to speak to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he suggested Kemp as a substitute even before Kemp had become the Vice Presidential nominee.

Both Al Gore and Kemp had Presidential aspirations, which induced pursuit of debate on a higher plane.

Berg was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but declined to accept it as he was told that upon accepting it, he would be forbidden from saying what he had done to receive the award.

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

While running against Reagan for the Presidential nomination in 1980, George H. W. Bush had derided Reaganomics as " voodoo economics ".

When Grant took Presidential office in 1869, Reconstruction of the former Confederate States had not been completed.

Harrison's Vice President, John Tyler, asserted that he had succeeded to the full Presidential office, powers, and title, and declined to acknowledge documents referring to him as " Acting President.

The first Presidential election to include neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President on a major party ticket since 1952 came in 2008 when President George W. Bush had already served two terms and Vice President Cheney chose not to run.

The original Constitution had no provision for selecting such a replacement, so the office of Vice President would remain vacant until the beginning of the next Presidential and Vice Presidential terms.

Ironically, both of the Presidents making the offer to Webster died in office, meaning the three-time Presidential candidate could have become President if he had accepted either.

After his tenure, and during the 2008 Presidential campaign, both Vice Presidential candidates, Sarah Palin, and Joe Biden, stated that the office had expanded too much under Cheney's tenure and both had planned to reduce the role to simply being an adviser to the President.